Noel Bros. v. Texas & Pac. Ry. Co.

Noel Bros., a partnership, sued the Texas & Pacific Railway Company for the sum of $1,083.30, with legal interest from August 28, 1925, claiming that on or about August 28, 1925, petitioner loaded thirty-three bales of cotton in defendant company’s, car No. 13162, at Gilliam, La., for transportation to Shreveport to be delivered to A. J. Ingersoll & Co.; that nine bales of the thirty-three were burned in said car while the car was on a spur track of the company in Gilliam; that the bill of lading, or contract, between the parties contained the provision that “the carrier or party in…